Auto save for .txt files

[Tim]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> vim apparentlt doesn't do it:
> http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9

Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of
network connection).  When I restart vim to edit the same file, or
re-open the same file in vim, it finds the swap file it was previously
using, and offers to let me recover from where I left off.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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